said by ouya :should not shaw test, maintain their backup generators or something. how can this happen to such a big provider... typical
Some news outlets are reporting that a backup generator exploded. When your redundancies EXPLODE (an unexpected disaster some might say) it's not really something you can predict. Even space shuttles have exploded off the pad, and nobody takes redundancy as seriously as NASA. You can't prepare for or create redundancies for everything. I think for the amount of years they have successfully delivered services out of Shaw Court you can't be too upset about one bad occurrence. You can rest assured that a lot of Shaw staff will be sleepless ensuring that everything is being restored.
Also: Very glad no Shaw staffers were injured.